Rethinking the European Social Market Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

Claassen, Rutger; Gerbrandy, Anna; Princen, Sebastiaan; Segers, Mathieu

doi:10.1111/jcms.12820

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“…The second is achieving Europe 2020 goals and using public procurement to achieve wider social aims including the protection of working conditions (Handler, 2015). We recognize that the exercise of SRPP in the EU occurs amidst these two potentially competing goals which play out through contestation across different actors and discourses, for example social democratic political parties in support of a ‘European Social Market Economy’ versus the more widespread support for a neoliberal ‘single market’ (Claassen et al ., 2019). Our discussion however is not to decipher which of these political economic contexts is more dominant and thereby their implications for pursuing SRPP.…”

Section: Srpp As a Labour Governance Instrument In Gpnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks

Raj‐Reichert

Staritz

Plank

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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Labour rights violations and poor working conditions are rife in global production networks (GPNs). Until now research on labour governance in GPNs has been dominated by private measures. We ignite discussions on the role of the state in governing labour conditions in GPNs by focusing on a less well‐known public governance instrument – socially responsible public procurement (SRPP). SRPP is the inclusion of social criteria on working conditions in public procurement contracts. Revised European Union (EU) directives on public procurement widened the space to exercise SRPP including for outsourced and offshored production. Understanding how states can exercise SRPP as a labour governance instrument requires a conceptualization of state powers. We present a conceptualization of the hybrid regulator‐buyer state and show that an effective SRPP approach requires both strong regulator powers, differentiated as legislative, institutional, judicial and discursive, and buyer power which depend on purchasing volumes and supplier and market characteristics.

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Section: Srpp As a Labour Governance Instrument In Gpnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks

Raj‐Reichert

Staritz

Plank

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Quite a large number of studies (Baute et al, 2018;Claassen et al, 2019;Rosetti, 2019;Burroni et al, 2020;Ferrera, 2020) have pointed out that the transformations of the European classical model, and the history of the European economy, demonstrate its capability to take on and adapt to significant structural changes, and to ensure comparable levels of productivity and sustainable economic growth, even when the economic paradigm suffered deep changes. In practice, the European economic and business model proved to be of utmost resilience: it was able to offer its consumers durable products and to provide finance for the welfare of their citizens, when affected by the transition to other, better, economic models.…”

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Business Demography and Economic Growth: Similarities and Disparities in 10 European Union Countries

Andrei

Chivu

Gogonea

et al. 2021

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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The main research aim is to investigate and test the long-term existence of a balanced relationship (cointegration) between business demographics and economic growth, expressed in terms of real GDP per capita, and to estimate the econometric models expressing relationships between analyzed variables in European economy. Our The study has focused on ten out of the eleven former communist countries, currently members of the European Union, during the 2006–2016 time period. Croatia was left out due to the shortness of the time series available for it, that the study would have required. These findings have significant implications in designing and shaping the future business models in European former communist countries, and increase convergence. The results obtained confirm the existence of long-term balanced relationships between the variables examined, the forms of which however vary from one cluster of states to another.

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“…To sum up: most critical analyses of EU integration hold that the internal market is founded on the mismatch between the uniform application of economic rules over a highly uneven socio‐economic space characterized by diversity of labour law regimes (Claassen et al ., 2019). Although we are broadly sympathetic to this perspective, we believe that it relies on a binary understanding of the relationship between EU internal market law and national labour law.…”

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Cross‐Border Social Dumping as a ‘Game of Jurisdiction’ – Towards a Legal Geography of Labour Relations in the EU Internal Market*

Iossa

Persdotter

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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The question of social dumping has again climbed the EU policy agenda. In this article, we call into question some established views of social dumping that conceptualize the relationship between EU internal market and Member States in binary terms. Based on an analysis of relevant case law, and drawing on the conceptual tools provided by critical legal geography, we show that the project of EU integration relies as much on the scalar differentiation of powers as it does on the ‘upward’ shift of powers from the national‐ to the supra‐national level. We propose an understanding of EU internal market law as productive of a ‘labour law patchwork’, defined by the simultaneous fragmentation and overlap of labour law regulations across and within EU Member States. Here, we re‐conceptualize cross‐border social dumping as a ‘game of jurisdiction’ – a set of strategic moves by actors within a multi‐scalar and multi‐jurisdictional space.

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Rethinking the European Social Market Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks

Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks

Business Demography and Economic Growth: Similarities and Disparities in 10 European Union Countries

Cross‐Border Social Dumping as a ‘Game of Jurisdiction’ – Towards a Legal Geography of Labour Relations in the EU Internal Market*

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